The Anatomy of Ed: Recent Episodes
Masters' Union
Dissecting the minds of business leaders, stand-out professionals, startup founders, and overachievers - With Pratham Mittal, founder at Masters' Union School of Business.
MU Master Edward Rogers spent 17 years as Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA helping rocket scientists solve their greatest puzzle - other people.
We sat down with the professor to discuss what exactly a CKO does, why it's important for companies to keep learning, why managing complexities is an art and not a science, and what makes the Masters’ Union approach to education so different from other B-schools. Get ready to dive into why algorithms can’t replace humans when it comes to managing teams, how to navigate changing job roles, and the importance of giving back.
Edward Rogers is a seasoned academician with a PhD from Cornell University who has served as a consultant at Procter & Gamble and as the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA. Currently, he teaches ‘The Art of Managing Complexities’ at Masters’ Union.
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Edtech in India has scaled like crazy! So what is the future of education in India and what are entrepreneurs, students and parents looking for in an edtech startup?
In today’s episode, we sat down with Aditya Malik to discuss everything education and edtech. Has education really changed in the last 5,000 years? Why are so many Indian graduates not considered employable? Can online education make up for lack of experiential learning? Are we looking at an edtech winter as funding dries up? We discuss the unique opportunities and challenges that India faces when it comes to education - and how we have to evolve while making sure no one gets left behind. Join us as we talk about attending classes in the Metaverse, learning through video games, hologram teachers and understanding accounting by running cloud kitchens.
Aditya Malik is a Senior Partner at Lumis Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm. He founded and was CEO at Talentedge, a higher education startup that was acquired by Upgrad and offers over 60 courses in partnership with more than 20 leading Indian and international universities including IIMs, XLRI, MICA, eCornell, and UCLA extension among others. Previously he was part of the top management at Bank of America and GE.
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Dr. Vaidya’s success is a compelling story about a 150-year-old Ayurveda clinic that scaled to a valuation of almost 150 crores.
The brand’s story picks up again when Arjun Vaidya left a promising career in the US to come back to India and follow in his grandfather’s footsteps. He launched Dr. Vaidya’s as a new-age Ayurveda company in 2016 and was joined by Trisha Rajani, his co-founder and now wife, a few years later. Together, they scaled the brand into an international wellness behemoth.
Last year, after tripling their valuation to Rs. 144 Crores during the pandemic, they were acquired by RPSG Ventures Ltd.
In our latest episode, we talk to the founders of Dr. Vaidya's about the challenges they faced in taking a legacy brand online, scaling from a team of 2 to a team of over 150, making ayurveda cool, balancing work and marriage, and finally getting acquired - where they had to let go of their “baby”.
Arjun Vaidya and Trisha Rajani Vaidya are the founders of Dr. Vaidya’s, a new-age Ayurveda brand that was acquired in 2021. Arjun Vaidya completed his bachelor’s at Brown University and is currently serving as Ventures Lead - India at Verlinvest, a consumer sector-focused investment firm. Trisha Rajani is a graduate of the University of Warwick and is working as an advisor at GlobalBees and Rukam Capital Mentor. Together, they have invested in over 70 brands in India.
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The word 'Branding' started with searing one's name on cattle to show ownership.
To draw a gory analogy, the meaning has stayed similar over the ages.
How do you sear your brand's name in your customers' minds (albeit a lot more gently)? How do you make sure that, when someone's ready to buy, your product is the first thing they think about?
In this episode, we talk to Puja Arti, brand manager at Absolute Foods, about her highly successful yet somewhat offbeat MBA career track. From her entrepreneurial background, her journey at Masters' Union, to Absolute Foods - her current Agritech startup, where she's using empathy to build a brand that aspires to feed our future generations. We discuss the day-to-day life of a brand manager, the most exciting aspect (and one thing she doesn’t like), the brands that inspire her, and what you need to become a brand manager.
Puja Arti is the Brand Manager at Absolute Foods. She is a Law graduate and completed her PGP in Technology & Business Management from Masters’ Union in 2021. She co-founded Build-Inn in 2015 to solve the problem of finding home builders and turnkey solutions for homemakers. At Absolute Foods, she drives brand strategies as part of the New Initiatives team that hopes to change the landscape of agriculture.
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Effective communication is arguably the most critical skill a leader should have. Communication is so intertwined with leadership that it can make or break companies. Anyone who sees themselves leading a team or an organisation in the future needs to study the arts of communication.
In this episode, Mihir Mankad talks about adaptive leadership, which is knowing what to say, how much to say and when to say it. We discuss everything from the role communication will play in the legal battle between Elon Musk and Twitter to how to motivate a team like Liverpool when they’re losing the Champions League final. Learn how to humanise the camera when giving online interviews, the role of storytelling in becoming an effective communicator and much more.
Mr Mihir Mankad is an award-winning professor who has taught leadership communication courses at Tufts and Harvard. His flagship course, The Arts of Communication, was the highest enrolled electives at the Fletcher School. He has been a national television news anchor and has authored two books on communication.
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Data science remains one of the hottest emerging career options in the world. It's a technology that, when used effectively, drives staggering growth.
Most importantly, there aren't nearly enough specialists in the field - and those that turn up get snapped up at ridiculous salary packages.
In this episode, Dr. Nandini Seth breaks down the need for data education at an MBA level. Tune in to know how data is deciding everything from book recommendations to movie direction, why data ed + business knowledge make a highly effective combination, and how different job roles across an organization can leverage data to get fantastic results.
Dr. Nandini Seth is a recipient of the prestigious Tata Motors fellowship award and founding faculty at Masters' Union. She was featured by Humans of Analytics as a woman in analytics to be followed.
Data science remains one of the hottest emerging career options in the world. It's a technology that, when used effectively, drives staggering growth.
Most importantly, there aren't nearly enough specialist in the field - and those that turn up get snapped up at ridiculous salary packages.
In this episode, Dr. Nandini Seth breaks down the need for data education at an MBA level. Tune in to know how data is deciding everything from book recommendations to movie direction, why data ed + business knowledge make a highly effective combination, and how different job roles across an organization can leverage data to get fantastic results.
Dr. Nandini Seth is a recipient of the prestigious Tata Motors fellowship award and founding faculty at Masters' Union. She was featured by Humans of Analytics as a woman in analytics to be followed.